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  • I grow Oxalis in pots and I love them !

    I bought them as part of a bucket of bulbs from Aldi last year.

    They're just coming up again now.The leaves look lovely on their own before the flowers come.

    Keep them I say !

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    There are hundreds of species of Oxalis, some of them pests like hell.

    It´s the case with a creeping oxalis (O.corniculata), which uses stolons to

    spread through lawn. There´s Oxalis debilis, which stores food in bulbs (that

    multiply...) and return quickly after the top is removed, and the bulb isn´t.

    I have these in my garden, and it took me many years to reduce them to a few

    many hundreds...

    But there are many ornamental ones, like O.floribunda, O.adenophylla and

    this O.tetraphylla that are far better-behaving, and can easily be kept in check.

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